rookery
Who acts: rookery, rooks, playground · What happens: be, live together, build · To what, where: group, noisy crowded place, nests, rookery
«rookery» in the school dictionary: its 2 meanings for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: rookery in the school dictionary.
Meaning 1
A rookery is a group of rooks' nests high in the trees, or the place where rooks live together.
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rookery | det |
| 2 | rookery | rookery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 group | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 group | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 group | det |
| 5 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nests | case |
| 7 | rooks | rook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nests | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 rooks | case |
| 9 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 group | nmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nests | amod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trees | det |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 high | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 place | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 group | appos |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 live | advmod |
| 19 | rooks | rook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 live | nsubj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 live | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 group | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rookery | a group | of rooks's nests | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live together | present | rooks | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Meaning 2
A rookery can also be any noisy, crowded place.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rookery | det |
| 2 | rookery | rookery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 place | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 place | cop |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 place | det |
| 7 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 noisy | punct |
| 9 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | a rookery | any noisy crowded place | tree rules |
Example 1
The rookery was loud at dawn.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rookery | det |
| 2 | rookery | rookery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loud | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loud | cop |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dawn | case |
| 6 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loud | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loud | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rookery | dawn | loud property | tree rules |
Example 2
Rooks built their nests in the rookery.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rooks | rook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nests | nmod:poss |
| 4 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 built | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rookery | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rookery | det |
| 7 | rookery | rookery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Rooks | Rooks's nests | the rookery | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product |
Example 3
The playground was a rookery at home time.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 playground | det |
| 2 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rookery | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rookery | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rookery | det |
| 5 | rookery | rookery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rookery | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rookery | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the playground | a rookery | time | tree rules |
Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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